ABSTRACT
The purposeful innovation resulting from analysis, system, and hard work is all that can be discussed and presented as the practice of innovation. But this is all that need be presented since it surely covers at least 90 percent of all effective innovations. There are innovations that do not proceed from the sources of innovative opportunity, innovations that are not developed in any organized, purposeful, systematic manner. There are innovators who are “kissed by the Muses,” and whose innovations are the result of a “flash of genius” rather than of hard, organized, purposeful work. Even the innovation that creates new uses and new markets should be directed toward a specific, clear, designed application. It should be focused on a specific need that it satisfies, on a specific end result that it produces. Innovations rarely are more than “almost right.” The necessary changes can be made only if the scale is small and the requirements for people and money fairly modest.
